“The woman had good reason to be afraid of this man, as she told the dispatcher on the other side of the phone, this same abusive ex had put her in the hospital just a few weeks before. But the dispatcher has no one to send. Because the local sheriff’s department recently lost millions in federal funds, it laid off 23 of its 29 deputies and limited their availability to eight hours on Mondays through Fridays. The woman’s call to 911 took place on a Saturday.”

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/22/2046361/woman-raped-by-ex-boyfriend-because-police-didnt-have-enough-funding-to-send-help/

“HollabackPHILLY, a branch of the anti-street harassment organization Hollaback!, hasn’t taken many breaks in the last few months. They’ve placed campaign posters on Philly subway trains, have met with companies about removing pro-harassment messages from their advertising and, last Thursday, the group sent their newly finished anti-street harassment comic book to the printer.”

Read more at: http://msmagazine.com/blog/2013/05/15/the-next-step-in-fighting-street-harassment-a-comic-book/

“A soldier assigned to coordinate a sexual assault prevention program in Texas is under investigation for ‘abusive sexual contact’ and other alleged misconduct and has been suspended from his duties, the Army announced Tuesday. Just last week an Air Force officer who headed a sexual assault prevention office was himself arrested on charges of groping a woman in a parking lot.”

Read more at: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57584515/fort-hood-sex-assault-prevention-coordinator-accused-of-abuse/

“Military sexual assault is not a new phenomenon. A second look at the Tailhook scandal in 1991 reveals what happened then. And what it all means now.”

View the video at: http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/05/13/booming/100000002219816/the-legacy-of-tailhook.html

“Experts argue that kids who commit sexual crimes have very different motivations to adults. Does that mean they should be exempt from sex offender registries?”

Read more at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22362837

The article reports, “In just the last few days, we’ve seen a series of news stories involving violence against women. The violence comes in different forms—physical, psychological, financial—and from different quarters—a former school-bus driver in Cleveland, the NRA convention in Houston, the military, Congress—and so it’s not surprising that the media, as usual, are delivering these stories as unrelated incidents.”

Read more at: http://www.thenation.com/blog/174267/cleveland-horror-and-week-violence-against-women#